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This volume honors Theo van den Hout, the Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor Emeritus of Hittite and Anatolian Languages at the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures and a preeminent philologist, linguist, and historian. The thirty-six essays offered here reflect the wide range of Professor van den Hout's research interests and include text editions, studies on religion and writing, and investigations into diverse lexical, linguistic, and literary topics.

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
Publications of Theo van den Hout
1. Deep Structures in the AN.TAḪ.ŠUM and nuntarriyašḫa- Festivals, by Alfonso Archi
2. How Are Unrelated Verbs Related? tuḫḫueššar and Its Friends and Relations, by Richard H. Beal
3. Madduwatta’s In-Law Troubles, by Gary Beckman
4. VITA and Double Eagle in the Iconography of Hittite Seals, by James Michael Burgin
5. Pirate Historiography and the Late Bronze Age, by Dennis R. M. Campbell
6. Mursili II and the Sammeltafeln, by Billie Jean Collins
7. Hethitische „Event“ und „Result Nominals“: Die Syntax der Nominalisierungen, by Paola Cotticelli Kurras
8. The Topos of “Homer the Herald” in Greek and Latin Literature, by Irene J. F. de Jong
9. The Undelivered ASSUR Letters: Reading /wa/ for the Hieroglyphic Luwian Sign *375, by Martien Dillo
10. Dealing with Bestiality in Hittite Anatolia: The Interplay between Ritual and Jurisprudence, by Amir Gilan
11. “Poldering” in Beyond-the-River: Revisiting the End of the ÇİNEKÖY Inscription, by Petra M. Goedegebuure
12. Weil sein kann, was nicht sein darf! KBo 58.216 + KBo 7.44: Zum Problem der Bilokation einer hethitischen Tontafel, by Detlev Groddek
13. Bemerkungen zur Fußbekleidung bei den Hethitern, by Albertine Hagenbuchner-Dresel
14. Dative or No Dative: The Function of the Morpheme *-is in Semitic, by Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee
15. EMİRGAZİ 1: Current State of Reading and Interpretation, by J. David Hawkins†
16. The Ivory Panel with a “Dancing God” from Temple 7 in Boğazköy/Hattusa Reconsidered, by Suzanne Herbordt
17. Only an Image? nbš, atri-, and the Katumuwa Inscription, by Virginia R. Herrmann
18. The Gala in Presargonic Lagaš Revisited, by Fumi Karahashi
19. Linguistic Interpretations of the Spelling of Hittite Dative-Locative and Allative Singular Forms, by Alwin Kloekhorst
20. Visual Rhetoric: Physical Design for Semantic Stress in the SÜDBURG Inscription, by Robert Marineau
21. The Mediopassive in Transition from Old to New Hittite, by H. Craig Melchert
22. Anatolian Hieroglyphic Writing: The Question of Its Origin and Development, by Clelia Mora
23. Women in Hittite Correspondence: Some Case Studies, by Alice Mouton
24. Horses and Chariots, Hittites and Indo-Aryans in the Studies of Annelies Kammenhuber: A Look behind the Curtain of Chariotry Research, by Peter Raulwing
25. Hidden Pronominal Clitics in Luwian Texts, by Elisabeth Rieken and Ilya Yakubovich
26. Rethinking the Size and Role of Ḫattuša, by Jürgen Seeher
27. A Magical Ritual Concerning the West Anatolian Foe Kukkulli, by Oğuz Soysal
28. The Chronological Boundaries of the Persepolis Fortification Archive, by Matthew W. Stolper
29. The Divine Soul, the Royal Soul, and Legal Authority in Hittite Texts, by Ada Taggar Cohen
30. A New Fragment of the Arinna Text Corpus, by Piotr Taracha
31. The Curious Case of Walawala’s Letter: An Old Assyrian Envelope in the ISAC Museum, by Oya Topçuoğlu
32. “When the moon gives an omen”: On the Ritual KUB 17.28 III 18–IV 44 and Its Composition, by Giulia Torri
33. Eight Middle Babylonian Texts, by Wilfred H. van Soldt†
34. From a Calm Sea to a Desolate Depth: A New Interpretation of ku(wa)li(u) ḫunḫu(n)eššar, by Willemijn Waal
35. Das Kultinventar KuT 60 aus Šarišša, by Gernot Wilhelm
36. On the Hittite Mediopassive Type ḫandāitta, by Kazuhiko Yoshida

• Studies in Ancient Cultures 5
• Chicago: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, 2025
• ISBN (paperback) 978-1-61491-135-7
• ISBN (eBook) 978-1-61491-136-4
• Pp. 538 (xxi + 517), 73 figures, 10 tables
• Softcover, 9 x 11.75 inches
• $99.95